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Continuous Wheat Growing. 



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in certain chalky-clay areas of the south where arable sheep 

 farming has gone out of fashion and where even bullocks are 

 not fattened to the same extent as formerly. Under the changed 

 conditions the proportions of the various crops would normally 

 be as follows : — 



Corn, mainly Wheat ... ... 50 per eent. 



Clover ... ... 15 „ 



Beans ... ... 15 „ ,, 



Bare Fallow ... 15 ,. 



Roots, ete. ... ... 5 ., 



Farming on these lines is suited to big holdings and large 

 open fields, where labour-aiding machinery and implements can 

 be used to the best advantage. 



Provided artificials are used judiciously and in adequate 

 amount, and provided also that the rotation contains a proper 

 balance of clover, beans and other leguminous crops, and that 

 the fallows are energetically and skilfully tackled, there need be 

 iio fear either of foul or of impoverished or of ill-working land 

 under this system. 



Manuring Wheat taken after Wheat or Another Corn Crop. — 

 Generally speaking, farmyard manure would be better applied 

 to such crops as potatoes, cabbages, mangolds, and even swedes 

 and turnips, than to wheat. The latter crop, therefore, in most 

 cases receives artificials alone. Generally some 2 or 3 cwt. per 

 acre of superphosphate or 5 cwt. of basic slag should be applied 

 before sowing the wheat, and from 1 to 1J cwt. per acre of 

 sulphate of ammonia or nitrate of soda as a top dressing in early 

 spring. In some cases a satisfactory response would be obtained 

 if larger dressings of nitrogenous manures were given. 



When n cwt. of nitrogenous manure per acre is applied, a) 

 small part mot more than J cwt.) of this might be mixed with 

 superphosphate and given at the time the wheat is sown, or if 

 basic slag is used instead of superphosphate, it may be given after 

 the slag has been harrowed in. On no account should sulphate of 

 ammonia and basic slag be mixed together. In any case the 

 greater part of the nitrogenous manure should be given as a top 

 dressing in spring. 



Where land is known to benefit from potash fertilisers — usually 

 light land and peaty soils — a dressing of 2 cwt. of kainit or 

 1 cwt. of 30 per cent, potash saltr, might he <*iven. 



Disposal of Straw. — The style o: farming above described is. of 

 course, mainly applicable at present where there is a sale for 

 rstraw, 



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